Overview
What is Whova?
Whova, headquartered in San Diego, provides what they describe as Intelligent Event Technology Solutions by creating authentic audience participation and engagement and simplifying the entire event process from planning to registration, networking, and follow-up. Whova's mobile engagement apps support both…
App that rocks!
Good Application for Events
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This is the Best Way to Virtual Conferencing - And That's From a Longtime "Conference Junkie"
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User-friendly and engaging App
Whova for an online event
Engaged delegates, made new contacts, and shared research and resources
Quick & Easy Check In
Whova...effective conferencing
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Popular Features
- Mobile Application (42)8.686%
- Networking (46)8.383%
- Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile (41)8.383%
- Audience engagement (43)7.878%
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What is Whova?
Whova, headquartered in San Diego, provides what they describe as Intelligent Event Technology Solutions by creating authentic audience participation and engagement and simplifying the entire event process from planning to registration, networking, and follow-up. Whova's mobile engagement apps…
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Features
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 8.1Responsive Design for Web Access(36) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 8.6Mobile Application(42) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 8.3Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(41) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Online Meetings / Events
Features related to hosting and attending meetings and events online.
- 7.7Calendar integration(28) Ratings
Scheduling capabilities integrate with users’ Calendars.
- 8.1Meeting initiation(30) Ratings
Meetings can be easily initiated, whether they are scheduled or on the fly.
- 7.8Integrates with social media(31) Ratings
Integrates with social media sites like Twitter and LinkedIn to promote meetings and webinars.
- 7.7Record meetings / events(23) Ratings
Meetings and webinars can be recorded for playback.
- 7.8Slideshows(22) Ratings
Presenters can present slideshows during the meeting within the web conferencing platform.
- 8.4Event registration(34) Ratings
Attendees can register in advance for upcoming online events (such as webinars).
Online Events Collaboration
Features related to collaboration between attendees during web conferences, webinars, and other online events.
- 8.1Live chat(27) Ratings
Participants can use one-on-one and group instant messaging to communicate privately or selectively during meetings.
- 8.4Audience polling(31) Ratings
Presenters can ask for audience input.
- 8.4Q&A(36) Ratings
Attendees can ask questions during the presentation.
Online Events Security
Features related to the security of meetings and other events held via web conferencing/webinar software.
- 7.2User authentication(26) Ratings
Administrators can require users to authenticate their identities before joining a meeting.
- 7.9Participant roles & permissions(24) Ratings
Administrators can grant users different levels of access to conferences, as moderators, presenters, attendees, or participants. Permissions can be set for individual users, or based on user role/group.
- 7.8Confidential attendee list(20) Ratings
Presenters, moderators, or admins can see a confidential list of attendees that is not visible to all attendees.
Online Events Marketing
Features related to the marketing and branding of online events, and use of online events for marketing purposes.
- 7.7Branding options(22) Ratings
Users can customize the look and feel of the application so that online events are branded (colors, company logo, etc.)
- 8Integration to Marketing Automation(19) Ratings
Webinar software integrates with users' MA systems to send out registration confirmations, email reminders about upcoming events, follow-up emails with webinar recordings, etc.
- 7.6Attendee list export(23) Ratings
The ability to export lists of event participants.
Virtual Event
These are features for Virtual Event software.
- 8.4Registration, RSVP, and ticketing(38) Ratings
Attendees can register, RSVP, and/or purchase tickets for the event in advance
- 7.3Email marketing(28) Ratings
Personalized email marketing to registered attendees, either within the software or through integrations
- 7.9Livestreaming(20) Ratings
Events can be broadcast live to hundreds or thousands of attendees
- 7.8Audience engagement(43) Ratings
Interactive features like live chat, polls, Q&A, and gamification
- 7.4Event recording(19) Ratings
Events can be recorded so that attendees can rewatch presentations at a later time
- 7.5Virtual booths(14) Ratings
Sponsors can set up customizable virtual booths that attendees can visit
- 8.3Networking(46) Ratings
Video and text chats specifically for attendee networking are available
- 7.8Event analytics(28) Ratings
Analytics and reporting (e.g., total attendee counts at individual presentations and booths, satisfaction with presentations) are available to help determine the success of events
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What is Whova?
Whova is an all-in-one event management solution that makes events modern and trendy, attracts and engages attendees, and helps event organizers save time on managing event logistics. Whova’s platform consists of an award-winning event app, efficient online registration, powerful event marketing, and time-saving event management tools.
Among Whova's customers are American Express, US Bank, PwC, Microsoft, Hilton, Lego, IKEA, L'Oreal, American Marketing Association, Harvard University, NASA, plus countless other organizations from over 100 countries.
Whova has powered over 30,000 in-person and virtual/hybrid conferences, including association events, education events, government events, corporate events, trade shows, expos, and community gatherings.
Whova Features
- Supported: Mobile Event App
- Supported: Event Ticketing/Registration
- Supported: Virtual/Hybrid Event Platform
- Supported: Event Management
- Supported: Attendee Engagement
- Supported: Attendee Networking
- Supported: Event Marketing
- Supported: Vendor Lead Retrieval
- Supported: Sponsor & Exhibitor Digital Booths
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Whova Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
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Whova is a versatile platform that has been utilized in various conferences and conventions, including events such as the NGO67 conference on the status of women with the United Nations, the annual sales conference, the Human Trafficking Summit, the Florida Festivals and Events Convention and Trade Show, and the KombuchaKon 2022 convention. Users have reported finding Whova helpful for messaging, communication, finding meetups, and accessing event information. It provides a reliable platform for attendees to navigate conference sessions, connect with speakers, ask questions, and engage through posting pictures and comments. Additionally, Whova assists users in tracking their own schedules, accessing surveys, generating interest in products, making connections with other companies, attending informative meetings remotely, and viewing recorded content. Users appreciate Whova's thoroughness, simplicity, and great functionality. The platform serves as a valuable tool for conferences by allowing businesses to exhibit their products and capture leads. It also enables attendees to stay organized with their sessions, connect with other participants through shared profiles and interests, and access conference calendars. Some users have mentioned difficulties in accessing contact information for all attendees in one place. Nevertheless, Whova is highly recommended for coordinating big events due to its user-friendly design and format. It has also been successfully utilized for virtual conferences worldwide, bridging gaps between participants and providing a sense of connection. Whova facilitates engagement between delegates and presenters while offering accessibility options such as dark mode and detailed control over notifications.
Users have provided several recommendations for using Whova in conference and event settings. The most common recommendations include using Whova for conferences with multiple concurrent sessions and networking. Reviewers suggest that Whova is well-suited for events and conferences with up to 1,000 attendees. Users also recommend exploring the implementation of Whova at Social Media Marketing World, a specific event where the app was used effectively. Overall, users endorse Whova as a user-friendly and useful tool for conferences and events, specifically highlighting its strength in handling complex schedules, facilitating networking, managing large attendee numbers, and fostering anticipation before events.
Attribute Ratings
- 9.1Likelihood to Renew4 ratings
- 9.1Availability1 rating
- 9.1Performance1 rating
- 8.2Usability11 ratings
- 7Support Rating95 ratings
- 8Implementation Rating62 ratings
- 9.1Configurability1 rating
- 9.1Product Scalability1 rating
- 9.1Ease of integration1 rating
- 9.1Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 9.1Vendor post-sale2 ratings
- 9.1Contract Terms and Pricing Model2 ratings
Reviews
(51-75 of 235)Whova think is going to run this conference?
- Organizing agendas
- open architecture for sessions (able to connect to speakers and to prompt questions)
- Ability to comment or like a comment or picture.
A MUST USE APP FOR ANY LARGE EVENT!
- Pre-Event Engagement & Promotion
- Event Contact Info Capture (scanning)
- Post-Event Follow up
- Can't think of many, but if I had to think of one...make more fields mandatory for attendees to fill out (either by self use or event registration)
Whova For Virtual Conferences
- Easy to find information, good layout
- Easy to login and navigate between areas
- Great use of multimedia in event app
- Downloading the materials, would be good to have the name of the materials attached when downloading it. Now it shows the name on the app, but when you download it, you get a 'nothing' type name and have to rename the file so you know what it is.
- Make it possible to bulk download materials when you've fixed the naming issue.
- When in the UofF conference, and if the broadcast is going on in the same room for different sessions, needs an auto kick out of the session to force you to click on the new session. So many people in the chat did not understand that they had to exit the session and go to the new session to see the polls and engage directly there. That was annoying (people annoying not the app).
I would not want to use it for group discussions and breakouts like Zoom meetings - but it's not designed for that (which I like). Different tools for different types of uses.
Whova is the best since the Chevy Nova!
- Providing updated detailed information
- Graphics are outstanding
- Easy to use
- I had trouble initialing setting up my account. My name is Don Lenz not Dan Lenz as indicated on my account name.
Whova Review from a Victim's Advocate
- The video was amazing
- The audio was great
- It was pretty user friendly
- At first I had a hard time navigating how to use it
Outstanding Product.
- We could e-mail between employees
- Reminders of meetings and times
- We could share pictures
- We were all kept in the loop.
- I would like to have been able to see more attendees
- I would like to know more about the community tab
I was still a little off on the attendees tab.
A great app for connecting conference strangers
- Easily connecting attendees to one another and ease of communication
- Making it simple for attendees to connect their LinkedIn accounts so images and information are automatically shared
- App is visually easy on the eyes and user-friendly
- Uploading handouts to conference sessions wasn't immediately clear--many people were confused about needing to go through the email link and it not being immediately available on the app.
- Agenda was not always easy to navigate--having it clearer which day was selected was tricky.
- Some sessions occurred at the same time in the same place, but they were laid out on the app like separate events. Finding some way to make it apparent that they were occurring one after another as a single session with multiple parts would have been helpful.
Whova is the perfect tool for hybrid conferencing!
We've used this platform for 3 conferences now and intend to continue to do the same in the future.
- Hybrid integration of chat and in-person experiences.
- Making conference schedule accessible and easily translated across time zones.
- Creating reasonable ways for conference attendees to message and connect without having to divulge personal information.
- I'd like to have a built-in way to have pronouns shown for every attendee next to their name
- automatic real-time updates chat when accessing via the mobile app. I had to repeatedly refresh my device to see new comments that had come in.
- The ability to make a whova-only on-site wifi connection for in-person conference attendees where in-person access is limited or difficult.
Bring Your Hybrid Conference to Life
- Landing page is clear, attractive and updated sections are easy to spot
- Communication between organizers and delegates was instantaneous and effective
- Delegate interaction was prioritized with fun interactions that led people to meet
- Delegate profiles were complete and easy to access, facilitating networking
- The time zone could be made more obvious (in color perhaps?) Many people missed the difference between local time/event time and kept telling organizers the program was incorrect.
- Making it possible to modify section names (eg. to use Program instead of Agenda)
Whova Saved The Day
- Spontaneous group meetups
- Seamless agenda udpates
- Multilingual instructions
- I thought it was a little weird how I had to click into each date for the agenda. For example, a great format for me is when you just scroll from day to day bottom to top.
- I'm not sure how much we paid, but I would watch your price point. I think this is really valuable and I can imagine smaller businesses getting huge value out of it, but they have to be able to afford/justify the cost.
Whova made KLA go smoothly.
- Inform all participants in real time
- Allow participants to communicate with each other as well as leaders
- Allow participants to choose their schedules
- The maps were helpful
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- interface
- messaging board
- private messages
- the ability to copy and paste content
- the ability to send images in the messaging boards and private messages
- video quality on live streams, and ability to see all the speakers
Excellent application for academic use
- Allows apploading and playing out videos from conferences at any time
- It has been combined with zoom smoothly with no technical issues
- It accounts for potential interaction between users
- None noticed
Will use when we have our own conference! 5-Stars!
- Surveys
- Photos
- Locations
- Contact Cards
- Updates
- Hotel Scheduling/Logistics
- Forms
- Insights
- Messaging
- Access to Data for 6+ Months after Conference Ends
- More (Much More)
- Link to Social Media! LinkedIn/Facebook
- Web presentation
- Organization
- Peer to peer communication
- Interoperability with other collaboration toolsets
- Add more templates or suggestions for setting up profiles
- UX for establishing separate groups within Whova
Great Timesaver for Event Attending
- Creating a personalized agenda
- Clear and complete descriptions of sessions
- Ability to download presentations
- Well laid out (did have to hunt for what I was looking for)
- A map of the conference center rooms would be helpful
- Ability to change sessions without having to delete the original one selected
- Take the red dot notification off of "Switch Event"
Users POV - Great for Time Management
- intuitive app
- easy to download
- lots of options, like for facilitators to upload documents and for the attendees to take surveys
- Even more convenient if could attach a link in the calendar event to the survey
- Even more convenient if could attach a link to the documents uploaded by the facilitator for their calendar event
Awesome time
- Connecting with other participants
- Seeing the agenda and any updates
- The ability to ask questions and see the responses
- The ability to add things like military service. You ask for the highest level of education and I was embarrassed to say just 12 years. I went directly to the Navy and didn't attend college. I'm sure there are other people that went [in] different directions after high school.
Whova is the NEW necessity event app!
- Scanning event attendees
- Connecting with event attendees
- Creating / generating discussion topics
- More options for scanning attendees - more than Hot, Warm, Cold
Conference App All-star
- Ease of use
- smooth interface
- Everything was in the one app
- I honestly cannot think of anything
Good, affordable event management tool
- Ease of implementation
- Support and communication
- Virtual events
- Reporting on who attended sessions and engagement
Pleasantly surprised
- Agenda
- Attendee Instruction
- Notifications from Organizer
- Activity option
Great app to elevate impact of an event
- Chat messages for networking with event attendees
- Communicate details for a complex multi-session event to all attendees
- Create a tailored personal plan for sessions to attend
- Capture photos of event attendees
- Can't think of anything you could do better
Great user experience
- Scheduling agenda and seeing available sessions and workshops
- Communication between users
- Community board Questions and Answers Job Postings
- Better searchability and filtering of sessions and workshops
- Some of the pages were overwhelming with the amount of data available making it hard to see exactly what was needed.
Enjoyed My Whova Experience!
- Easy navigation between the various sections for a virtual conference.
- The interface was very intuitive to use for a first-time user.
- All the various sections for the conference were integrated, so when you connected with a colleague using the chat function, you could see that input in other conference forums.
- I didn't use it long enough to determine any areas I would improve.